L'Obel Certified Photoshop WebDesigner

L'Obel’s Photoshop Web Designer course will help you acquire advanced skills for becoming a Professional Website Photoshop Designer for Web 2.0 Standards.

Internship Options

L'Obel is unique in its Photoshop training and delivery methodology as it is the first in India to provide the participant Hi-End technology training followed by rigorous INTERNSHIP in its SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTER. This gives the participant real time software-development experience through Web 2.0 Designs Standards Life Cycle to making you a complete Professional Website Designer.

Adobe Photoshop WebDesigner @L'Obel is designed to make the participant the most sought after Professional Photoshop Website Designer. This makes the participant familiar with the most popular tools and technologies in Website Designer. On completion of this course the participant can join the industry as a Professional Photoshop Website Designer.

Adobe Photoshop has become the industry standard for image manipulation due to it's extremely powerful editing capabilities and vast array of fine controls. It can be used for a variety of design purposes, from poster and flyer design, to web page layouts as well as standard image manipulation.

This practical and creative L'Obel course will introduce you to the Photoshop toolbox, and show you how to create stunning professional looking images for use in any web 2.0 design standards.

Course Syllabus

Basic Photoshop Training - Course Outline

Basics

• Overview of the Photoshop CS3 interface
• Bitmaps and vectors explained
• Image modes
• Image size and resolution
• Image colour concepts

Basic Tools and Colour

• Overview of the Photoshop toolset
• Brushes and brush types
• Adjusting brushes
• Choosing colours by eye
• Numerical colour
• Pantone colour
• Do's and don’ts of choosing colours
• The background image
• Erasing and canvas colour

Selection

• Essential image navigation shortcuts
• The marquee tools
• Adding and subtracting selections
• Automatic selection using the wand tool
• Automatic selection using the quick selection brush
• Manual cut-out techniquesl
• Transforming a selection
• Understanding selection edges
• Refining selection edges
• Saving and reloading a selection

Layer Masks

• Introduction to the power of layer masks
• Creating a layer mask from a selection
• Modifying a layer mask using the paintbrush tool
• Tricks for modifying mask edges for cut-out
• The gradient tool and masks

Layers - Combining Images

• Layer blending modes
• Layer opacity
• Transforming and distorting layers
• Working with multiple layers
• Creating montages

Image Adjustments

• Destructive verses non-destructive techniques
• Using adjustment layers
• Levels explained
• Colour balance and colour balance considerations
• Hue and saturation
• Selective adjustments using masks

Filters

• An overview of filters and their uses
• Pixel (100%) view and what it means
• Advantages of using smart filters
• Image sharpening in detail
• Image blurring
• Selective filtering

Layer Effects

• Overview of layer effects
• Applying drop shadow
• Applying other layer effects

Steps to Prepare and Image for End Use

• Opening an image using Adobe Bridge
• Scan resolution and dpi explained in depth
• Reference to colour bit depth
• Cropping and sizing (the quick way)
• Image adjustments using levels, colour balance and hue/saturation
• Further correction to images using Shadow/highlight
• Re-touching using the clone tool
• Re-touching using the healing tool
• The new Clone Source Palette

File Formats

• Considerations when choosing a file format
• Common file formats explained

Intermediate and Advanced Photoshop Training - Course Outline

• Colour Adjustment
  Adjusting the brightness & contrast with Levels
  Changing the colour balance or removing a colour cast
  Adjusting the colour balance for part of the image or for a certain range of colours
  Using the colour adjustment tools to create artistic colour changes
  Setting areas of an image to pure black or pure white
  Create a faded image to go behind text
  Colour adjustments using Adjustment Layers
  
  
• Text Design
  Filling text with a texture or photograph
  Distorting text around a curve and typing on a path, or within a path shape
  Creating drop shadows & emboss and other effects on text
  Copying layer styles to other layers or images
  
  
• Paint Brushes & Patterns
  Creating new brush shapes, saving your brushes and loading new brush sets
  Painting with different colour blending modes
  Painting in straight lines
  Creating a pattern and filling an area with a pattern
  
  
• Colours
  Choosing colours from different colour models Storing colours for later use
  Ensuring the your colours are printable - Proof settings and Gamut Warning
  
  
• Colouring & Tinting
  Producing a tinted photograph or a duotone image
  
  
• Layers
  Organising layers and the content on them
  Copying layers to other open documents
  Using and editing layer masks
  Using opacity and layer blending modes to obtain different effects when montaging
  
  
• Selection Tools
  Selection tool options, cropping to a selection - fixed aspect ratio selection
  Modifying selections - transform selection tool, expand, contract, feather
  Creating complex selections around image areas
  Saving selections - reloading and modifying saved selections later
  Using Extract to make a cut out or a mask
  Making a mask from a selection
  
  
• Channels
  Editing individual colour channels
  Creating and editing alpha masks
  Using a copy of a colour channel to create an image mask or a selection
  Creating greyscale images from selected colour channels
  
  
• Photo Retouching
  Removing scratches and restoring damaged photographs
  Removing red eye from a photograph taken with flash
  Removing an unwanted items from a photo
  Adding objects to photographs
  Changing the background of an image
  
  
• Design & Montage
  Creating a vignette effect or a border around an image
  Fading an image out to solid colour
  Creating designs and montage by blending together images, text and artwork
  Create a photo montage or build a panoramic image from 2 or more photos
  Design a simple web site banner or simple poster/postcard design
  Using either scanned artwork or illustrator artwork to create a selection outline and then fill outlines with either solid colour, textures or photographs
  
  
• Illustrator Artwork
  Bringing Illustrator artwork and graphics into Photoshop
  Smart Objects
  
  
• History Palette
  Using the History Brush to restore parts of an image after making changes
  
  
• Filters For Artistic Effects
  Creating textures
  Creating a line art effect from a photograph
  Using lighting effects and motion blur filters to add depth to an image
  
  
• Web Images
  Correctly re-sizing images for use on web sites so that you don’t get blurred images
  File formats and compression settings - the correct ones to use
  Optimising and exporting in the correct file format
  
  
• Actions
  Recording a series of steps to be performed on a number of images
  Naming, editing, saving, loading and running actions
  Batch processing a complete folder of files
  
  
• Paths
  Using the pen tools for creating and modifying paths
  Editing and saving a path with an image
  Converting a path into a selection
  Using clipping paths with DTP applications to mask off areas of an image
  
  
• Vector Shapes
  Creating vector shapes using the built in shapes
  Creating customised shapes or using a shape created in Illustrator
  Changing the colour of a vector shape
  Modifying a vector shape
  
  
• Various
  Creating a contact sheet from a folder of images
  Saving, exporting and using Photoshop files with other applications

Course Duration

The duration for the Professional Photoshop Website Designer Course is 80 Hours.


Contact us

For more information about this course write to info@lobelitp.com or walk into our IT Training centers located in Bangalore.